What is the function of a gun?

[hunter]

96. There's no reasoning with people who have gun fetishes.

Gun fetishes are a compulsive behavior like gambling; the gambler can't explain the compulsion to non-gamblers.

The gun manufacturers and traders prey on gun fetishists like the casinos prey on gamblers, like the alcohol manufactures prey on alcoholics. They make most of their profits from people with a problem, but they justify their market by pointing out that most people can walk away from a gun, a drink, or a bet without destroying their own lives or the lives of others.

Retreating from my initial anger about these mass shootings (but not the NRA "mental illness" diversions which will always make me furious!!!), I think the problem ought to be dealt with as we have dealt with drunk driving. As we recognize alcoholics have a problem with alcohol, we ought to recognize gun fetishists have a problem with guns. Drunk driving has gone from something that was once accepted as something that was no big deal, something that everyone occasionally got caught in, but now it's something you can lose your driving privileges over, even your automobiles.

I think we ought to treat gun fetishists the same way. Upon evidence of ANY foolish behavior with guns, including incidents where no one is injured (leaving guns in places where children can get them, shooting while drunk or drinking, etc..) ought to result in increasingly severe restrictions upon the gun fetishist's "right" to own arms.